Chapter 102: Agnes Gray
Charlotte was already teaching at the school, which prevented her from taking care of Anne, but she did care about her sister's health. Anne had no friends at school, but studied quietly and diligently, knowing the need to be educated and make a living from what she learned, and she won the Excellence Award in 1836.
When Anne and Charlotte returned home just before Christmas 1836, Anne tended to her maid Tybe Ackroyd, who had been injured in a fall, while continuing to write poems about Gundal. Written at this time, "Lady Granda", which exaggerates the gloomy atmosphere and depicts the despair of Gundal's Lady Granda, is also the first surviving poem by Anne Brontë.
In 1837, after much exposure to Calvinist thought, Anne faced a crisis of faith on the question of whether all people could be saved.
Charlotte always thought that Anne was a child, and that Anne's classmates were too young, and this lack of place to talk led her to write the poem "Voices in the Dungeon", after which she fell ill.
Anne's symptoms were intense stomach aches and difficulty speaking, a condition in which she later wrote of a situation in which no one could confide: "The dear name, which I struggled in vain to shout, disappeared into the barely indistinguishable whispers of the tip of my tongue."
Latrope of the Moravian Church visited Anne several times, and through his enlightenment, Anne's crisis of faith was alleviated, but her condition was still not optimistic.
Charlotte was so anxious about this that she quarreled with Anne's teacher, Miss Waller. In January 1838 the Reverend Brontë took Anne home, and she gradually recovered.
Considering Anne's precarious health situation. Reverend Brontë asked her to stay at home and not go back to school, and Anne and Emily continued to write poems and diaries about Gondal at home.
In the spring of 1839, Brownwell's plan to open an art studio failed, and he had to return home, Emily returned home to recuperate after a period of governess, Charlotte could not find a job for a while, and the Reverend Brontë found himself in a situation where he was once again in a situation where he was able to support several children with his meager salary.
Quiet and realistic, Anne helped the family in her own way, and she was offered a position as a governess at the Ingham family at Black Manor.
Anne refused to be accompanied by anyone, went alone and quickly settled in. Anne soon discovers that the situation is far worse than expected, and the students are arrogant and savage, even deliberately torturing themselves.
She had a hard time controlling them, let alone learning anything, and at one point she was so angry that she locked her students to the legs of their desks. Anne complained to the child's parents. But there was no support from them. On the contrary, they are considered uncooperative tutors.
On Christmas Day 1839, Anne, who had lost her job, returned home and the three sisters were reunited. The experiences she experienced at Black Manor were later written by Anne in Agnes Gray.
Anne befriended his father's new assistant, William Wittman. Wittman, a graduate of Durham University, has been working in the parish since the end of August, and he is popular in the parish.
Valentine's Day 1840. Wittmann wrote a poem to each of the three sisters, who had never received a Valentine's Day compliment.
Anne's paintings of this period appear in the image of a sentimental woman facing the sea. And in the poems he wrote, there are also images of men and women who are like the rising sun. Researchers speculate that she had a strong crush on Wittmann.
In May 1840, Anne got her second job as a governess to the Robinson family in Thorpe Green.
In June, she followed the Robinsons to Scarboro, North Yorkshire, for a holiday. Anne loved the beautiful view of Scarborough next to the sea. Enjoy walking around and discovering the amazing landscapes.
From the second half of 1840 onwards, Anne's poems diverged, with Emily writing poems about Gondal when she returned home, and even making a trip with Emily to imitate the characters in Gondal, but she would write poems expressing her own personal emotions while she was at Thorpegrin.
Soon after, Anne discovered that she had the same problems she had at Black Manor: she was homesick, her children were disobedient, and the Robinsons were unsupportive, and she even wrote in her diary, "I don't like the situation and want it to change." She didn't change anything, but she did stay and became friends with two of her students.
In 1841, Anne returned home for a vacation to meet Wittmann again, but soon after she went to Scarborough to meet up with Robinson's house. At this time, she began to write her own independent diary, in which she mentioned that the three sisters planned to open a school of their own.
In 1842, Anne returned home for a vacation to discover that Wittmann had died of cholera, and in December of the same year she wrote a poem for "an unknown man" expressing her grief and anguish.
Sister Brontë considered several school sites, including the vicarage's house, but did not actually act on them, and attempts to open a school were written about in Agnes Gray.
In early November 1842, Aunt Elisabeth, who had raised the Brontë sisters, died, and Charlotte and Emily were attending school in Brussels, with only Anne rushing back to attend the funeral.
In 1843, Anne returned to Thorpe Green, where she secured a position for her brother Branwell, making him tutor to Edmund, who had grown up.
From 1844 onwards, Anne became more and more unbearable with the circumstances of the Robinson family, and Brownwell's influence under the influence of the Robinson family became more dissolute and painful, and she had to write poetry to cope with it.
In 1845, Anne Brontë abruptly resigned from her position as tutor at Thorngreen and returned to Harworth, generally due to her brother Branwell's affair with Mrs. Robinson, and Mr. Robinson's insinuation that Anne acted as an intermediary.
When Anne returned home, she began to write "Agnes Gray" while accompanying her father, who was depressed and depressed.
In the fall, Charlotte came across Emily's poem and thought it could be published. Emily, who has a strong personality, is upset with Charlotte's discovery, believing that her sister is interfering with her privacy. Anne basically agreed with Charlotte's plan, and in order to settle the quarrel between Charlotte and Emily, she volunteered to contribute her own poems.
The three sisters did not even tell Branwell and their father, Anne and Emily each selected twenty-one poems written after 1840, and Charlotte selected nineteen of her early poems, plus the money provided by Aunt Elizabeth, and sent the collection to the publishing house.
Fearing that reviewers would give unfair comments on the author's female identity, the three sisters all used pseudonyms. The pseudonym Bell comes from the church's associate pastor, and the initials of the three names are the same as the initials of the three sisters, and Anne became Acton Bell.
In 1846, the 165-page Collected Poems of Cooler, Ellis, and Acton Bell began to be sold, and critics gave some praise, but sales were dismal, with only two copies sold in the first year.
Charlotte later thought that her own poems were naïve in the three sisters' poems, that Emily's poems were "rough, melancholy, and sublime" and that Anne's "had their own sincere and lovely poignant taste"
Before the collection could be heard, the three Brontë sisters had already completed their first novel. Due to their different artistic views, the relationship between the three sisters was divided, and Anne wrote two poems calling for family harmony.
In July 1846, the sets of the three novels, The Teacher, Roaring Heights (Wuthering Heights) and Agnes Gray, began to circulate in London with publishers.
After several rejections, Roaring Hills and Agnes Gray were accepted, and The Teacher was not willing to be published. Charlotte soon wrote "Cherished", which was soon published. (To be continued......)